--- title: "Press & Media Center" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/press/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Press & Media # Press and media: a source, not just a *story*. ## Expert commentary on human trafficking, forced labor, and ecocide, from teams working in 33 countries since 2007. Since 2007, beginning with the investigation behind the book *Not For Sale*, our co-founders and teams have worked the frontlines of modern-day slavery and ecocide across 33 countries: the scam compounds of the Golden Triangle, the gold fields of Madre de Dios, the cobalt belt of the DRC. These are environmental crimes that double as crimes against people. The same illegal mine that poisons a river runs on forced labor. [Email the press desk →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry) [Download the media kit](https://wearenotforsale.org/press/media-kit/) Email team@wearenotforsale.org We respond to media requests within one business day. [Forbes 2018 REBBL, and how magic can power your brandOpen preview →](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulearle/2018/02/20/rebbl-and-how-magic-can-power-your-brand/) [CNN 2016 Trafficked women learn to cook at chic restaurantOpen preview →](https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/26/europe/amsterdam-trafficking-dignita/index.html) [The Sun 2026 Slavery Compounds: Women Offered Prizes When Scammers Hit QuotasOpen preview →](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39715655/slavery-compounds-women-offered-prizes-scammers-hit-quotas/) ## Featured inCoverage and bylines across broadcast, business and investigative press The Sun CNN Forbes Fast Company USA TODAY TechCrunch CNBC VICE HuffPost VOA The Guardian The New York Times W I R E D Stanford Social Innovation Review TEDxFurmanU Anthem Awards MarketWatch Not For Sale on the record ## Latest coverage What the press has published about our work, most recent first. [Article The Sun Slavery Compounds: Women Offered Prizes When Scammers Hit Quotas Foreign News Reporter Leah Renz interviewed Co-Founder and CEO Mark Wexler for The Sun’s investigation into the industrial-scale cyber-scam compounds along the Thai–Myanmar–Laos border. 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Filter by desk 6 angles **$35Bpig-butchering losses in 2025 · TRM Labs The scam economy See the angle** Crime & courts World Business, tech & AI ### The scam economy is staffed by slaves The DOJ is indicting compound bosses; Dubai police raided nine compounds in one April operation. The under-covered half: the “scammers” are themselves trafficking victims. [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20The%20scam%20economy%20is%20staffed%20by%20slaves) Mark Wexler · Golden Triangle, since 2007 **−40%Victims of Crime Act funding Who fills the vacuum? See the angle** World Philanthropy ### Who fills the vacuum? USAID’s counter-trafficking unit, $47M across 24 countries, was eliminated. Frontline organizations are now the load-bearing wall. [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20Who%20fills%20the%20vacuum%3F) Field data · private-capital model **3,750workers trafficked into Houston’s rebuild after Katrina After the fire See the angle** Climate Labor ### After the fire, the traffickers Of 6,571 homes destroyed in the LA wildfires, 13 were rebuilt a year later. Disaster recovery is a trafficking-risk event almost nobody covers that way. [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20After%20the%20fire%2C%20the%20traffickers) Economists and field staff available **$15Bbitcoin forfeiture · Cambodia’s Prince Group Follow the money See the angle** Crime & courts Business, tech & AI ### Follow the money The compounds run on crypto rails, laundered through casinos and real estate, protected by border militias. The corruption story and the trafficking story are one story. [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20Follow%20the%20money) $61M in Tether seized by the DOJ **12 yrson the DRC–Uganda border The minerals rush See the angle** Climate Labor Business, tech & AI World ### The minerals rush has a body count AI datacenters and EVs drive record demand for cobalt and coltan while forced-labor enforcement is rolled back. Child labor in the DRC, mercury in the Amazon. [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20The%20minerals%20rush%20has%20a%20body%20count) King’s College London research **$2M+returned to the mission by REBBL alone Silicon Valley’s other export See the angle** Business, tech & AI Philanthropy ### Silicon Valley’s other export Founders who built venture-backed companies and took two through private equity exits. For business desks: can the startup playbook out-compete organized crime? [Inquire →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry%3A%20Silicon%20Valley%E2%80%99s%20other%20export) REBBL · Relocity · Dignita Press desk ## Journalists: get in *touch*. We respond within one business day. [Email the press desk →](mailto:team@wearenotforsale.org?subject=Press%20inquiry) [Download media kit](https://wearenotforsale.org/press/media-kit/) Email team@wearenotforsale.org Field access Southeast Asia · East & Central Africa · the Amazon · Europe · the US